Chapter 101 Kakuzu and Uchiha
After leaving the Rain Country and arriving in the Fire Country, the weather became much clearer.

Basking in the warm sunshine, Bai Ye secretly sighed in his heart that the Fire Kingdom is more suitable for human survival than the Rain Kingdom. Not only is it suitable for farming, but the air also does not have that damp and moldy smell.

With such rich natural conditions, it is no wonder that Konoha can always defeat three enemies at once in every Ninja World War.

Konoha may be weak for a while, but the land and population can allow Konoha to lose many times, and then slowly develop back through peacetime business.

In contrast, the other major ninja villages all have major flaws in their geographical conditions, and their only advantage is that they are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As for the ninja villages in small countries, there is no need to say more. Each ninja village has fatal flaws.

The Land of Rain is a place of war on all sides, and the climatic conditions are naturally unsuitable for production. The Land of Grass is a prison, the Land of Iron is a country of samurai, the Land of Rivers and the Land of Hot Springs are simply buffer zones and half of Konoha's vassals.

Hashirama Senju, who unified the Land of Fire back then, occupied almost all of the prime areas of the ninja world, and the remaining places were rotten places with extremely high costs of ruling.

Moreover, Bai Ye suspected that the reason why Hashirama Senju failed to dominate the ninja world was.

In addition to avoiding retaliation from the four major ninja villages and maintaining a balance of power, have you also taken into consideration the particularity of this profession in the ninja world?

Ninjas are a group of mercenaries, and ninja villages are even more of a mercenary group.

On weekdays, some low-level commissions can sustain the life of a Genin, but for a Chunin and a Jonin, it is definitely impossible if peace is really maintained.

How do ninjas make money? Do they rely on grants from daimyo?
Suppressing the thoughts in his mind, Bai Ye hurried on his way, visiting towns and villages along the way as a traveler, asking about the living conditions of ordinary people in the ninja world.

Seeing this scene, Hanzo fell into deep confusion.

Bai Ye didn't go out to recruit new members, so how come he started chatting with these ordinary people?

Although ordinary people are the financial backers of ninjas, and ninjas live on these commissions, ninjas and ordinary people are essentially two different types of people.

Even ninjas who have not yet graduated from the ninja school have the strength to fight several adults alone.

A qualified Chunin can easily kill dozens of ordinary people. The strength gap between the two sides is almost in another dimension.

Only some samurai who use chakra can pose a threat to ninjas.

Bai Ye was too lazy to explain his intentions to Hanzo. After asking the villagers a few questions, he continued on his journey to the black market.

Chatting with the villagers was fruitful, but not huge.

Although there are nobles and daimyo, the nominal monarch, in the ninja world, due to the existence of chakra, the productivity of the lower classes in the ninja world has always been very good.

In addition, the gap in strength between ninjas and ordinary people is too great, so it is very difficult to use ordinary people to deal with ninja villages and daimyo.

It would only be possible if chakra training techniques were popularized in the ninja world and everyone could become a ninja.

However, this is impossible in the current environment. Although ninjas seem to be everywhere, their number is actually extremely rare. Perhaps only one out of a hundred people can become a ninja.

Most of the people who have the qualifications to become ninjas live around the ninja villages.

To put it bluntly, the most powerful time for ordinary people in the ninja world is when they are trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi and become White Zetsu.

Unless there is a special way to force people to improve their strength.

After much thought, Bai Ye decided that the only option was the curse seal, but the success rate of the curse seal was not much higher than the Wood Release experiment, and the mortality rate was too high.

……

From the western part of the Fire Country, all the way to the eastern part of the Fire Country.

It took Bai Ye half a month to find Kakuzu's whereabouts, but he was still a step too late. There was no sign of Kakuzu in the black market. After finding the black market owner, Bai Ye asked directly, "Where did Kakuzu go?"

The black market boss was hesitant and somewhat afraid to reveal Kakuzu's whereabouts, as Kakuzu's name was too famous in all the major black markets.

But after being lifted up by Hanzo's collar, he still answered honestly:
"My two shinobi masters, Kakuzu-sama accepted the commission two hours ago and has already left."

Bai Ye frowned and asked impatiently, "Kakuzu accepted a commission. What commission did he accept?"

The black market boss quickly took out the wanted list and handed it to Bai Ye.

Bai Ye casually flipped through the wanted list and found that the first few pages were for Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, with bounties starting at 1 billion.

There were also a few pages torn out, probably by Kakuzu.

After asking the black market boss who the remaining people were, Bai Ye took Hanzo and left the black market, following the direction indicated by the black market boss.

Looking at the backs of Byakuya and Hanzo, the black market boss breathed a sigh of relief and began to worry about Kakuzu.

Could it be that these two ninjas are looking for revenge on Kakuzu?

Although Kakuzu is a very cruel and vicious person, he has a very good reputation in the black market. Apart from those on the bounty list, he almost never kills innocent people.

The most important thing is that every time Kakuzu completes a task, they can get a commission from it.

If that happens, he will lose a cash cow.

After traveling in the forest for half an hour, Bai Ye suddenly stopped. He sensed several powerful chakras in front of him. Judging from the amount of chakra, the strength was at least that of a senior ninja.

There is also an extremely mixed chakra in it. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Kakuzu.

Only Kakuzu has such complex chakra in his body. After all, Kakuzu is a ninja with five lives, and his strength is infinitely close to the Kage level.

He stretched out his hand to signal Hanzo to stop, and the two of them restrained their chakra and moved forward.

Soon, Bai Ye and Hanzo saw two groups of ninjas confronting each other.

To be precise, it was the bounty hunter Kakuzu who was confronting a group of Uchiha people wearing fan-shaped uniforms and with red eyes. Some of these Uchiha people had one magatama, two magatama, and even three magatama.

"The battle between Kakuzu and the Uchiha was interesting."

Seeing this scene, Hanzo became interested. After following Bai Ye for so many days, he finally saw a battle between ninjas instead of just a boring investigation.

Bai Ye also became interested.

There is a popular saying in the ninja world that in a one-on-one situation, the Uchiha is invincible.

But Kakuzu is equal to five jonin, and it is not known whether this group of Uchiha can be Kakuzu's opponent. Maybe Kakuzu can even get the heart of Uchiha later.

At this moment, Bai Ye noticed a short Uchiha with three magatama in the crowd.

There are not many Uchiha who can awaken three magatama at this age, and almost every one of them is a familiar ninja in memory. But at this point in time, besides Obito, there is only one person left.

Thinking of this, Bai Ye said to Hanzo beside him:

"Senior Hanzo, which side do you think has a better chance of winning? Shall we make a bet?"

(End of this chapter)